How to understand this sentence

lymchess,

This might be an interesting topic if you can post a picture of figure 1. Sparky surely has the right answer, but it would be useful to see what the error was.

This sentence seems to refer to a previous sentence, so it would also be helpful to post the whole paragraph so that we can see the context. The "this" in the phrase "it is not clear that this was the intent" was defined previously I suspect.

Intent is short for intention.

Does that help?

Sparky rules! (as usual)

I would add that in reality, a drafter's job is one of data translator. We take in the language of engineering, and we translate it to the descriptive language of technical drawing. A drafter must know enough engineering to understand what the engineer is trying to convey to them and he or she must understand the way in which the end user needs that information presented to them in order to act upon it properly.

All too often this concept is lost upon those answering ads for trade schools like ITT Tech etc. who see the job as putting lines on paper.

Decades ago, a designer was someone who could operate with only a little engineering supervision and could reliably do about 80% of what a degreed engineer could do. Drafters were tasked with taking the information presented to them by the designer and making technical drawings. But somewhere along the way, being a drafter was looked upon as demeaning and a lot of HR personnell started calling what should properly be called drafters, designers. But they did not recategorize proper designers in the process, so now instead of having drafters, designers, engineers, you just have designers and engineers, and the spectrum of experience level and capability of designers is all over the map.

Hello Rorschach

To help you understand better about drafters, I attach the picture at left, of some drafters in Australia.

Trust that assists you.

Kind Regards....

This hits a point that's a problem I've seen throughout these forums... Bad, or very bad grammar being used to post questions or even answer questions posted.

It's hard enough to try to understand some of the questions asked... But when you have to make assumptions on something someone is asking, that just complicates matters even more... Not to mention the fact that the reader has to re-read it a few times at least. Anyway, for me I don't read it more than twice...

This doesn't even touch on many of the typos either... Nor does it go into, what I've assumed to be is 'leet' 'speak'(?), where the word "you" is changed to a "u" and etc.

Not to mention when people 'demand' answers but can't or won't use proper grammar; and don't even say 'thank you.'

Not to mention that many of us are 'technicial minded' people... It only takes a few moments to make corrections and clarification's to things or questions that you may need answered. Not to mention the fact that "we're" suppose to be 'professionals' here.